Ohio is currently mulling a new abortion bill proposed by Republican senators, House Bill 413, which would force doctors to “reimplant an ectopic pregnancy” into the uterus of a woman who suffered from the complication.

This procedure is technically impossible, but if the doctor doesn’t perform it, the new bill states, they would face a charge of “abortion murder” the Guardian reports.

In an ectopic pregnancy, a complication which sees the embryo attach outside of the uterus, a woman can die if the tissue is allowed to continue growing.

On its website, the Mayo Clinic says of the complication: “An ectopic pregnancy can’t proceed normally. The fertilized egg can’t survive, and the growing tissue may cause life-threatening bleeding, if left untreated.”

The Guardian reports that obstetricians and gynaecologists in the state are now reminding the state’s legislators that the procedure is a medical impossibility.

In the U.S., certain Republican-led states have in recent times passed new, more strict abortion laws, in the ultimate hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. Roe v. Wade deemed that American women are at liberty to have abortions without government interference.

The Washington Post previously reported that the new Ohio bill, sponsored by two Republican Ohio lawmakers, State Reps. Ron Hood and Candice Keller, would end abortion completely in the state. One pro-choice advocate told the outlet it would “strip every person who can get pregnant of their bodily autonomy.”

Among the bill’s features are that it would legally recognize unborn foetuses as people, the Post reported, citing a release from the Right to Life Action Coalition of Ohio. The release says that those who perform abortions would be “subject to already existing murder statutes.”

In reading through all the comments: Condolences to those who have had ectopics for whom HB413 may be particularly painful. Thank you for speaking out.

“The new Ohio HB413, p.184: To avoid criminal charges, including murder, for abortion, a physician must “…(attempt to) reimplant an ectopic pregnancy into the women’s uterus.”

“I don’t believe I’m typing this again but, that’s impossible,” he wrote. “We’ll all be going to jail.”

“Condolences to those who have had ectopics for whom HB413 may be particularly painful. Thank you for speaking out. In addition to being bizarre, misogynistic & misinformed, ‘ectopic re-implantation’ legislation is profoundly insensitive.”

The Post reports that the bill would seek to defend those who help police to “investigate abortions.”

Hood, one of the bill’s backers, said in a statement to the Post:

“Up until this point, legislators have only regulated abortion. They have decided which classes of people have a Right to Life by creating exceptions to abortion, which is tantamount to creating exceptions to pre-meditated murder.”